linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5 V2] PCI: pciehp: check and wait port status out of DPC before handling DLLSC and PDC

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Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:20:50 +0800
From:   Ethan Zhao <xerces.zhao@...il.com>
To:     Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
Cc:     Sinan Kaya <okaya@...nel.org>, Ethan Zhao <haifeng.zhao@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Oliver <oohall@...il.com>,
        ruscur@...sell.cc,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@...il.com>,
        Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jia, Pei P" <pei.p.jia@...el.com>, ashok.raj@...ux.intel.com,
        Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 V2] PCI: pciehp: check and wait port status out of DPC
 before handling DLLSC and PDC

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 05:46:41PM +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:29 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:27:46AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > > > On 9/26/2020 11:28 PM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> > > > > --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c
> > > > > @@ -710,8 +710,10 @@ static irqreturn_t pciehp_ist(int irq, void *dev_id)
> > > > >     down_read(&ctrl->reset_lock);
> > > > >     if (events & DISABLE_SLOT)
> > > > >             pciehp_handle_disable_request(ctrl);
> > > > > -   else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC))
> > > > > +   else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC)) {
> > > > > +           pci_wait_port_outdpc(pdev);
> > > > >             pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change(ctrl, events);
> > > > > +   }
> > > > >     up_read(&ctrl->reset_lock);
> > > >
> > > > This looks like a hack TBH.
> [...]
> > > > Why is device lock not protecting this situation?
> > > > Is there a lock missing in hotplug driver?
> > >
> > > According to Ethan's commit message, there are two issues here:
> > > One, that pciehp may remove a device even though DPC recovered the error,
> > > and two, that a null pointer deref occurs.
> > >
> > > The latter is most certainly not a locking issue but failure of DPC
> > > to hold a reference on the pci_dev.
> >
> > This is what patch 3/5 proposed to fix.
>
> Please reorder the series to fix the null pointer deref first,
> i.e. move patch 3 before patch 2.  If the null pointer deref is
> fixed by patch 3, do not mention it in patch 2.

Make sense.

Thanks,
Ethan
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lukas